Amazing Charts Help Table of Contents

Installing and Uninstalling 9
Practice Information Window 17
Setting Administrator Password 18
Adding A User 19
Adding A Schedule 20
Verify Your Practice for Prescription Writing 21
Importing Patients 22
Running Installer on Networked Computers 25
Running AC the First Time 27
Run as Administrator 28
Firewalls 29
Logging Into AC 31
Networking AC 32
Sharing AC on Windows 7 36
Getting Help 39
Add a Patient 43
Add a Patient Photo 44
Inactivate a Patient 45
Schedule an Appointment 46
Remove a Scheduled Appointment 48
Pull a Patient Chart 49/50
Pull a Patient Summary 51
Document an Encounter 53
Change the Date of a Note 54
Enter a Patient?s Medications 55
Attach a Picture 58
Add a Diagnosis 59
Use the E&M Coding Assistant 60
Use Spellcheck 62
Order Tests 63
Review, Reconcile and Track Orders 71
Reconciling Orders 76
Document an Immunization or Vaccination 79
Injections & Other Shots 82
Forward a Chart 83
Pull a Forwarded Chart 84
Save a Note 85
Sign & Code an Encounter 86
Print a Note 90
Cosign a Note 92
Resurrect a Lost Note 93
Prescribe a Medication 95
Verify Yourself for Prescriptions 99
Edit a Medication 101
Remove a Medication 101
Review the Prescription History 102
Review Electronic Transactions 104
Set My State Prescription Format 106
Order Secure Prescription Paper 107
Use Electronic Prescribing 107
Renew Prescriptions Electronically 108
Let My Staff Prescribe on My Behalf 113
Document a Phone Message 115
Review a Saved Message 116
Document an Addendum 117 *
Interim Alerts (What Has Happened Since Last Visit) 121
Use Templates 123 *
Add/Edit a Template 125 *
Sharing Templates 126
Import a Template 128
Import an Item 131
Setting Up Interfaces 132
Edit an Imported Item 134
Signoff All Unsigned Items 135
Control a Twain Scanner 137
Repair Imported Items Missing Links 137
Find Patients Meeting Specific Criteria/Generate Rpt. 137
Search for Patients 138
Send a Practice Newsletter 141
Create a Mass Email Blast 141
Choose a Password 142
Change a Password 142
Do Billing 143
Facilities / Places of Service 144 *
Add a Modifier 146
Print a Daily Batch 147
Lookup Codes 147/148
Add ICD (Diagnosis) Codes 148
Edit ICDs 148
Add CPT Codes 149
Edit CPTs 149
Do Offsite Backup 150
Restore an Amazing Charts Backup 153
Write a Letter 154 *
Add Users 157
Inactivate a User 157
Add a Signature 157
Add or Edit a Schedule 157
Turn On an Interface 158
Reset the Path 158
Export a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) 159
Export a Continuity of Care Record (CCR) 159
Buy Amazing Charts 161
Report a Bug 162
Update Amazing Charts 163
Check for Updates 164
Know if I Have the Most Up-To-Date Versio 164
Updating from Other Versions 165
Learn More 224
Plot Growth Curves 225
Add a Directive 225
Print a Chart 226
Recommend Improvements 229
Know (online knowledge base) 230
Audit Log 230
Tracked Data Module 230
Reset the Path to Your Database 231
Health Maintenance (Decision Support) Module 233
Edit a Patient?s Health Maintenance Rule 239
Do Meaningful Use 240 *
Use Color-Coding of Required Meaningful Use Data 241
Checkpoint Dashboard 242
Meaningful Use Report Writer 245
Meaningful Use Submission Assistant 249
Access a Patient?s PHR 249
Amazing Charts Desktop 251
Taskbar 252
Patient List 252

The Patients
Demographics 254
Summary Sheet 256
Injections 257
Medications 257
Tracked Data 257
Most Recent Encounter 258
Imported Items 258 *
Account Information 261
Add a Manual Superbill 261
Print an Invoice 263
Print a CMS 1500 264

Scheduling
Booking an Appointment 266
Finding a Scheduled Appointment 268

Common and Advanced Reporting
Search & Reporting 269

Practice Rolodex
Using the Practice Rolodex 271
Print Encounter/Send Letter 274 *

Meaningful Use 277
Stage I Meaningful Use Details 277

Administration 303
Logging Into the Admin Window 307
Practice Information 308
User Tab 309
User Security 312
Templates Tab 317
Tracked Data Tab 321
Financial Data 324
Change the Admin Password 324
ePrescribing Setup 326
Configuring Automatic Backup 327
Audit Log 328
Interfaces tab 334
Define the Formal Health Record 338
Configure Health Maintenance 340
Configure Health Information Exchanges (HIEs & RHIOs) 347
Configure Place of Service (PoS) Facilities 350 *
Add Patient Portal Connections to PHRs 352
Configure Practice Documents 354 *
Fix Imported Items Error 359
Interfaces 365
Electronic Prescribing 365
Epocrates 371
Midmark/Brentwood Hardware 372
Holter 372
ECG 374
Spirometry 375
Handwriting Recognition 377
Voice Recognition 377
X-Link 378
Instant Medical History 380

Amazing Charts Services
Guardian Angel Support and Updates (Maintenance 381
Offsite Backup 381
Amazing Chart Billing Services 381

Help, STAT! 382
I screwed up a note 382
I crashed before saving a note 382
I entered practice data incorrectly 383
I can?t see the whole screen 384
The setup assistant restarted 385
I can?t get Amazing Charts running 387
My hard drive crashed that had my database 388
Amazing Charts keeps crashing 389
There are misspellings in the drop down boxes 389
Right mouse clicking doesn?t work like it does in Windows 390
Errors & Bugs 390

Amazing Charts Specs & Technophile Information 393

Best Practices 396

Anatomy of the Amazing Charts Directory 396
Networking Problems 398
Releases & Builds 399
Shortcut Keys 401
CCHIT Stuff 403
Data Encryption 409
About Amazing Charts 417
User Preferences 417
HIPAA Alert 417
Restarting Amazing Charts 417